Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... BODY : The Theories of their Relation . By ALEXANDER Bain , LL . D. With 4 Illustrations . $ 1.50 . 5. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY . By HERBERT SPENCER . $ 1.50 . 6. THE NEW CHEMISTRY , By Professor J. P. COOKE , of Harvard Univer- sity ...
... BODY : The Theories of their Relation . By ALEXANDER Bain , LL . D. With 4 Illustrations . $ 1.50 . 5. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY . By HERBERT SPENCER . $ 1.50 . 6. THE NEW CHEMISTRY , By Professor J. P. COOKE , of Harvard Univer- sity ...
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... body and mind , or waiting to ask whether cases of mental adjustment are not really quite as mechanical in the sense of being the necessary result or correlative of a chain of physical sequences due to a physical stimulation , it is ...
... body and mind , or waiting to ask whether cases of mental adjustment are not really quite as mechanical in the sense of being the necessary result or correlative of a chain of physical sequences due to a physical stimulation , it is ...
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... body to mind in view of the doctrine of the conservation of energy . I shall subsequently have occasion to consider this problem with the close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the ...
... body to mind in view of the doctrine of the conservation of energy . I shall subsequently have occasion to consider this problem with the close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the ...
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... concerns the general relation of body and mind , and has nothing to do with the guarantee of inferring the presence of mind in particular cases . those which are manifested by man , sufficiently prove the INTRODUCTION .
... concerns the general relation of body and mind , and has nothing to do with the guarantee of inferring the presence of mind in particular cases . those which are manifested by man , sufficiently prove the INTRODUCTION .
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... body , and it only learns to do so by degrees as the result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be instinctive , in that it involves the mind - element ...
... body , and it only learns to do so by degrees as the result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be instinctive , in that it involves the mind - element ...
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression, as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.